Thread: Jarrah slimline

if you are turning and find a crack in the timber then you can put some CA glue into the crack and hit it with accelerator or just let it dry and that should hold

if you get one that blows apart and find all the pieces then you can also try glueing it back together with CA, sometimes it works and other times you can see the blow apart bits, but it is always worth a try, after all if it doesn't work you can always turn all the wood off the tubes and start from scratch

hope this helps

MIK

nice looking pen. Very neat from end to end

I agree with MIK. Use CA. Sometimes it works, sometimes it goes pear-shaped. You can always start again... Annoying when it's expensive/rare/significant timber though.

When I buy pen I usually order some extra tubes for that style as there will always be times when you need them. You can also do a batch of pens on spare tubes, decide which ones make the cut and assemble them and turf the rest...

Cheers,
Dave

Nice start to your new hobby.. Well done.

Be warned!!! There is no cure, but that is agood thing.

Woody Pear, aka Hakea can be tempremental _ and dirty - but CA usually sorts it out, as Mik has already said.

Good luck.

Hi Woodhacker,

Just a small tip.

When getting near the end of your fine chisel
or sanding work, place a clean sheet of paper
on the lathe below your pen.

If you have a relatively small problem you can then
recover some of the fine particles to patch up with
using some light superglue (c.a).

Sometimes it can actually add to the character
of the pen or easily blend in with burls.

Allan

May also be worth checking that you are getting good even spread of glue when putting in the tubes. There is very little timber left on a Slimline and this could be an issue too.

What turning tool do most people use to turn pens???

I've typically used a roughing gouge, or even a fingernail bowl gouge for some of the 'trickier' timbers

... right now I hates Red Mallee ... has blown up on me twice ... grrrrrrrr

Hey Woody,

Nice job on the Pen, and yeah you are hooked, watch out wallet ,
What all the other guys said about saving your blanks, is all first class advice, as for turning tools, what ever works for you is good, I use a gouge and sometimes a skew, some people only use a scraper, it doesn't matter what you use, no one will know once it's finished, and they wont be able to look at it and say oh he used a roughing gouge, The only thing that you have to have is a sharp tool, what ever it is.

HazzaB

Nice Job on the Pen, there are lots of frustrations with different materials we use,part of the learning process is knowing which ones will give trouble and take steps at the start of the pen making process ,eg which glue up for which materials, the more dificult stuff like very soft or burls need a top glueup I use 2 part epoxy for those, sometimes you will need to stabalise with thin CA as you get a bit closer to sizes It may help you to get some "hands on " with an experienced turner to get some fine pointers on using the notorious "skew" I know I only used mine for a scraper for the first year The one good thing is you can have a lot of fun and produce great pens along the way (we never stop learning ) and remember ,sandpaper is a turning tool lol, cheers ! John

Thanks for the advice Gawdelpus ... and of course you're right ... after taking a few deep breaths, I realised I probably should have taken it easier, with finer cuts, on the Mallee; particularly on the second occasion. One would think that I would have learnt from the first !?!

Skew Chisel ... it's an angled scraper isn't it ...
Yeah, I probably need to track down someone (locally) who knows how to use one properly. I've tried following guidance in a couple of books; one by Richard Raffan, but I still haven't quite got the knack yet ... and the gouges are just too easy to fall back to.